User:Ragrella/sandbox/Marty Meehan

Addition to Marty Meehan page new article content ... Note to editors: We've done some additional research to add to Marty Meehan's homepage here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Meehan. So as to adhere to your policies, I'm sending it to you to review in advance. All items are credited to the news publications that wrote them. Let me know if it's permissible to post (or if you would do it). I'd ask that we add this at the end of his "Political career" section:

Meehan was widely praised when he decided to leave the U.S. House in 2007 to pursue a new career in higher education, with colleagues and observers in the media noting his commitment to ethics and campaign-finance reform, his quest to force the tobacco industry to be more candid about the health risks associated with smoking and his fierce determination to improve economic conditions in the Merrimack Valley and throughout his congressional district.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, then the dean of the Massachusetts congressional delegation, was quoted in The New York Times saying: “Marty has been a true champion for Lowell and the Merrimack Valley, and our loss in the congressional delegation will certainly be UMass Lowell’s gain.” New York Times Op-Ed columnist Francis X. Clines gave Meehan high marks for his work to tighten ethical standards in the House, and took particular note of his effort to lengthen the amount of time departing representatives would have to wait before they could become lobbyists. “He labored as one of the House’s most aggressive fighters for ethics reform, taking aim at alumni lobbyists, among others,” Clines wrote. Political commentator Mark Shields credited Meehan with having the courage and ethical focus needed to take on the big-money interests, writing: “Marty Meehan has made a majority of his colleagues uncomfortable, and he has also made a major difference in the banning of unreported and unregulated million-dollar contributions from our politics. He deserves our gratitude. His courage and his ethical compass will both be missed.” Closer to home, the Boston Globe, in an editorial, noted: “… he took on the tobacco companies, campaign finance reform, and aspects of the Iraq war, and became a leader in each cause.”

UMasswebteam (talk) 19:25, 26 August 2016 (UTC)UMassWebTeam